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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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Post by vkou »

mcmcmc wrote: post #382
swat535 wrote: post #370

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Interesting you say that, because as another Canadian, I would say that the sentiment in our country is the opposite of you describe. The actions of our government reflect it. Canada is moving further from US, not closer. Canadians who support Americans are in the minority at the moment. I'm not sure how a new US president would be able to turn it around.. further more, what's to say that the president thereafter wil…

The simple answer is we need constitutional reform. Term limits on SCOTUS, codification of norms (eg releasing presidential candidate tax returns, not blocking appointee confirmations indefinitely to steal the position for the next admin), anti corruption laws with teeth. Also things like reigning in the absurd executive power bloat that’s gone on since Lincoln. POTUS was never meant to be a king. There should never…

If being an insurrectionist and convicted felon and neck-deep in the Epstein ring wasn't enough to sink the guy, I don't think anyone who voted for him (or anyone who for good or bad reason, abstained) would give a single flying fuck about his tax returns.

What matters is the taxi, not the checkers. Stuff like tax returns is window dressing.

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Post by Borealid »

Cider9986 wrote: post #561
gblargg wrote: post #532

The decoy passcode feature should boot into a separate partition that looks like a normal phone setup, and during that time quietly erase the user's actual data. They would never have known if it worked like this.

Not physically possible[1] to be deniable and a bad[2] idea. [1] https://veracrypt.io/en/Wear-Leveling.html https://veracrypt.io/en/Trim%20Operation.html [2] https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2082153517234676150#m

I don't understand how wear leveling makes deniability impossible. You just have to overwrite sectors in the false partition at the same rate as ones in the true partition. Since both the true and false partitions are encrypted, their contents are mathematically indistinguishable from randomness when viewed without the decryption key.

I also wish that GrapheneOS link didn't say a duress PIN forces the attacker to think twice about entering a PIN, knowing it could wipe the device. It doesn't do that for anyone aware of its existence, since of course the attacker can prevent the secure element from sending a delete command to the flash chip. Obviously if you know the device could attempt to delete itself you would break that feature before sending the code to the secure element...

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Post by le-mark »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #577
az226 wrote: post #540

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Probably, but it will be more valuable for society for him to be tried and found not guilty, setting a legal precedent.

Assuming he is found (edit: not) guilty, which is not guaranteed at all

Trumps DOJ has destroyed credibility with federal judges all ove the country. They’ve had more than one case come back not guilty so far (subway sandwich guy). I’m optimistic they fail to get a guilty verdict here too.

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Post by tcfhgj »

malfist wrote: post #500
grishka wrote: post #473

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Those "nandroid" backups weren't "close" to that, they were literally that initially. Then, when Android phones started coming with the /sdcard partition mapped to the internal flash memory (a subdirectory of /data) instead of an actual SD card, the /data partition backup mechanism was changed to copy individual files into some sort of archive, but the end result remained the same. You can still do it on modern Andro…

How many mainstream phones come with unlocked bootloaders? Just pixel right?

Fairphone

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Post by bluefirebrand »

le-mark wrote: post #614
bluefirebrand wrote: post #577

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming he is found (edit: not) guilty, which is not guaranteed at all

Trumps DOJ has destroyed credibility with federal judges all ove the country. They’ve had more than one case come back not guilty so far (subway sandwich guy). I’m optimistic they fail to get a guilty verdict here too.

That's positive. I don't live in the USA and I sort of actively avoid news from there. It's good to hear that the federal courts aren't necessarily on Trump's side

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Post by clbrmbr »

paimapi wrote: post #242
Zak wrote: post #214

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This is a half-truth. In a full banana republic, technical compliance with the law will not prevent consequences for failing to do what the authorities want. In a jurisdiction with perfect rule of law, it always will. The USA is somewhere in between. One of the laws that's enforced pretty well in the USA is the protection against unreasonable search. Most of the time, a search requires showing a judge evidence that t…

we're far closer to one side of that spectrum than the other. consider the retroactively legalized mass wiretapping, room 641A, NIST compromises, PRISM, 14 Eyes, the other Snowden revelations, etc then consider this paired with the implementation of mass data sharing between the alphabet agencies, surveillance data sharing from private companies like Amazon Ring, Flock, Clearview, etc. and NSPM-7 ordering agencies to…

shudder. but, where else could we go? switzerland? my point being we need to try to get 1995 back. id gladly trade my iphone for a car phone.

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Post by lstodd »

Terr_ wrote: post #323
trencedamp wrote: post #317

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There's a way simpler solution and it's just to leave your phone at home and put your SIM in a different handset without all your data on it

An increasing portion of phones are eSIM [0] only these days, and the difficulty of swapping can be weirdly-bad depending on provider. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM

Can't one just buy some craphone for like $50? with whatever sim.

The whole problem as I see it is that people for some reason submit all their life to a device they can not control. And when it bites them they go all suprised.

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

leonidasrup wrote: post #250
Zak wrote: post #214

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This is a half-truth. In a full banana republic, technical compliance with the law will not prevent consequences for failing to do what the authorities want. In a jurisdiction with perfect rule of law, it always will. The USA is somewhere in between. One of the laws that's enforced pretty well in the USA is the protection against unreasonable search. Most of the time, a search requires showing a judge evidence that t…

Border search exception lowers the requirements for judicial oversight. "In United States criminal law, the border search exception is a doctrine that allows searches and seizures at international borders and their functional equivalent without a warrant or probable cause. Generally speaking, searches within 100 miles (160 km) of the border are more permissible without a warrant than those conducted elsewhere in the…

It's really crazy. If 2/3 of us don't have privacy rights then what are we even doing.
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